A Meme of Alphabet, Part 10

S is for—Seven Dials




As the Five Points
was to Gangs of New York-era Gotham, so Seven Dials was to
1800s London—the centre of the rat's maze, a place where the city's
criminal underclass had congregated and bred since long before
Transportation to Australia was enacted into the Criminal Code. It
was, in other words, a truly superlative slum which gave rise to a
culture and language of its